Reports: Eric Holder to stay on as AG

Attorney General Eric Holder will stay for about a year into President Barack Obama’s second term, Fox News reported Monday.

The embattled Holder, the subject of a congressional contempt vote earlier this year, is remaining at the president’s request, Fox reported. The news outlet cited a “senior administration official” who said that “Obama doesn’t want a mass exodus at the start of his second term.”

There are two people who really need and Holder is one!! This is very bad news - he will only oversee to make sure that all corruption going on can still be maintained. I do not for a minute buy the stoy that he didn't tell the president about Petraeus.

The other one they really need to get rid of his ValerieJarrett - she seems to be running things way more than the president is. The power she has and if you look at her background it's frightening. She is known to be corrupt and incompetent.

With this bunch in the White House we can count on more money being wasted on things like Abound Solar that is under criminal investigation. But with Holder there I'm sure he'll be able to make sure nothing happens to those responsible for authorizing the loan to them even though there are memos from the White House that pushed it.

Holder is the insider who knows all the dirt and will be therefore defended and protected forever by Obama! He is incompetent professionally but, as a friend and political ally he has the Prez's back 110%......

If anyone needs to stay in the administration, it is Hillary Clinton. It is in her best interest and the nations, to stay to debunk the charges that the Republicans think the can use to discredit the Obama administration and Hillary's excellent record as Secretary of state.

Once the dust settles (at least for non-Tea Party folks) Hillary will still have plenty of time to organize her Presidential campaign, work on her recipe for "chocolate chip cookies" or whatever strikes her fancy.

The previous posters are a great example as to how the Tea Party is destroying the once great GOP. Holder is corrupt, he is this he is that but, all they have is Radical Right Wing, AM Hate Radio and FOX Propaganda talking points. One would think that after four years and millions of American Tax Dollars wasted by Issa and his Nutty Friends that if they have yet to find any thing, they never will. So it is either Holder is corrupt and all of the Tea Nuts are failures at finding any corruption or that Holder is an honest man and that all the Tea Nuts are simply wasting American Tax Dollars for political gain.

About a year he says. That is about how long it will take the house oversight committee to finish extracting the damning documents Mr Holder has been withholding. Then I suppose he will get all expense paid retirement.

While Holder is AG, the ability of big government ton invade the privacy of individual Americans will have grown dramatically. The AG and the President both touted protection of privacy rights prior to their current positions. Both opposed the Patriot Act in speeches. But they have not only renewed the Patriot Act in the past four years, but they have extended its reach.

Now they are set to allow many more law enforcement agencies to get access to your most private information.

Worse, this would extend what has been limited to federal power to combat terrorism, to permit many other law enforcement agencies to gain access. This is from local police to stock trades can now be accessed without any "probable cause", much less a search warrant approved by a judge.

Remember all the hubbub back in 2002 when the Bush Admin pressed the Patriot Act and obtained abilities to go before a special judicial panel to read email between know terrorist addresses overseas, who communicated with Americans in the USA? Now there is no such squeamishness. It doesn't have to go between terror addresses. It doesn't have to go overseas. and it doesn't have to go before a judge. Now the local cop writing speeding tickets can read what you write to your lawyer about how to beat the ticket without consulting a judge.

It was Clapper who modified the talking points for Susan Rice. But she knew the original talking points because she was on the distribution list. What we do not know is upon what basis Clapper and his office made such a decision. What evidence did they review.

What has NOT been discussed so far, is why the WH, State Dept, CIA, or DoD did not correct Rice's statement as soon as they were aware of the actually source of the attack. That would seem to be elementary. The WH has often backed off of a public statement a day or two or three later when it did not confrom with reality. But in this case, the WH kept up the fictional narrative for two weeks without releasing a memo correcting Rice's statement with updated information. Carney was still defending the "spontaneous uprising" till two weeks later AFTER Obama spoke to the UN.

Regardless if the DNI thought the CIA evaluation was "tenuous", within a day or two the origin of the attack, and they nature of the pre-planning was well known and verified by mulsitple intelligence agencies as well as the Libyan government. So why was the finctionalized account circulated for so long without correct?

This is the next step in this debacle of crime and cover-up. Then Clapper, after the truth is revealed, can explain the reasons for why this was hidden from the public for months. Why didn't he step forward and admit responsibility early on instead of costing time and money by dragging out the investigation. He know what had occurred, and yet he chose to hide it, and his boss, the President, never asked him to come clean.

This is why Holder is likely leaving in a year. The investigations into his office are beginning to tighten the noose. He doesn't want to be around for the dirge music to be played.

Glad to see Holder and Obama not giving into the bullies, liars, exaggerators, and other right-wing Teabagger thugs. The people who hate Holder and accuse him of all kinds of BS, are the same folks who scream and whine about Obama's birth certificate. While not all of them are racists, certainly many of them are. Yeah for Obama and Yeah for Holder!